Best Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotations
- Men of cold passions have quick eyes. Cold
- This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away. All
- Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! Delightful
- Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. Adequate
- Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! Acknowledged
- One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… Applause
- At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… Appointments
- We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not… Act
- Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. Care
- Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt. Food
- And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only… Apple
- When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.… Approach
- An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable… Accept
- It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends… Addressing
- Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. Acquired
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Alight
- No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may… Any
- Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands… Character
- All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical… Affection
- We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. Always Talk
- Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless… All
- Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Chooses
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never… Attained
- Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Accuracy
- A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. Brainy
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